Resumé

Rick Lowell

Formal Education 

  • 9/2013-9/2013 – Graduate – Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution (Mediating the Litigated Case), Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
  • 9/2012-12/2012 – Cert. of Competency in Hypnotherapy - Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA 
  • 8/1983-5/1986 – Juris Doctor – University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, CO 
  • 6/1974-6/1978 – Bachelor of Science Cum Laude – U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD


Employment 

  • 11/2018-Present – Lowell Dispute Resolution – Bellingham, WA
  • 1/1990-Present – Magnuson Lowell, P.S. – Redmond and Duvall, WA - Currently ‘Of Counsel’, providing advice for other firm attorneys on cases and litigation strategies. With over 25 years as the law firm’s Senior Trial Attorney and Managing Director, handled a wide variety of representations and cases from small to multi-million-dollar matters; personal injury and insurance defense, family law, criminal defense, contracts, small business, consumer issues, and estate planning.
  • 12/1991-Present – State of Washington – King and Snohomish counties - Preside as Arbitrator deciding litigated cases assigned by Superior Courts through the Mandatory Arbitration program.
  • 8/1986-1/1990 – Betts, Patterson & Mines, P.S. – Seattle, WA - Associate Trial Attorney.
  • 5/1984-8/1984 – Hon. Alvin D. Lichtenstein (Denver District Court) – Denver, CO - Judicial Law Clerk / Bailiff 
  • 10/1978-6/1983 – U.S. Navy –USS Patrick Henry (SSBN/SSN 599) – Homeports: Pearl Harbor, HI and Bangor, WA. Qualified Nuclear Submariner. Responsible for safety and operation of ballistic missile submarine and its nuclear-powered engineering. Honorably Discharged.
  • 7/1978-10/1978 – U.S. Navy – Fleet Weather Facility – Suitland, MD. Ice Reconnaissance Officer and Ass’t Ice Forecast Services Officer.


Representative Published Words and Seminar Engagements 

  • Equal Employment Opportunity: Are you Overlooking the Application Form? Personnel, July/Aug 1982
  • Effective Use of the Expert Real Estate Appraisal Witness; DeNovo, May 1989
  • Personal Injury: Handling the MAR Arbitration – Suggestions and Warnings From Someone Who Has Served All Three Roles (Arbitrator, Plaintiff’s Counsel and Defendant’s Counsel) – WSTLA – Seattle, WA
  • Advanced Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Law: Whether Insured or Insurer? Wouldn’t it Be Nice if IFCA Wasn’t Necessary? National Business Institute (NBI) - Seattle, WA - 2016
  • Personal Injury Claims: Evaluating the New Claim - National Business Institute (NBI) – Seattle, WA - 2015
  • Personal Injury Claims: Using Evidence to Identify Weaknesses – National Business Institute (NBI) – Seattle, WA - 2015


Representative Cases Argued in Appellate Courts

  • Christen v. Lee, 113 Wn.2d 479, 780 P.2d 1307 (1989)
  • MacKenzie v. Empire Insur. Companies, 113 Wn.2d 754, 782 P.2d 1063 (1989)
  • Koehler v. Cunningham, 61 Wn.App. 1011, cert den., 117 Wn.2d 1027 (1991)
  • Hartley v. Amer. Contract Bridge League, 61 Wn.App. 600, 812 P.2d 109 (1991)
  • Nationwide Insur. v. Williams, 71 Wn.App. 335, 858 P.2d 516 (1993)
  • Frobig v. Gordon, 124 Wn.2d 732, 881 P.2d 226 (1994)
  • McGrane v. Cline, 94 Wn.App. 925, 973 P.2d 1092 (1999) (cert. den.)
  • Hyde v. Bruell, 2001 WL 719333 (Wash. App. 2001)
  • Dulaney v. St. Alphonsus Regional Med. Ctr., 137 Idaho 160, 45 P.3d 816 (Idaho 2002)
  • Estate of Morgan v. N. Kitsap Fire & Rescue, 30197-1-II (Wash. App. 2004)
  • Guscott v. Advanced Health Care, 173 Wn.App. 857, 295 P.3d 816 (Wash.App. 2013)
  • Saunders v. Thore, 77826-9-I (Wash.App. 2019)


Honors, Awards and Appointments

  • AV-Preeminent Rated – Martindale-Hubbell
  • Who’s Who in American Law
  • National Registry of Who’s Who (Life Member)
  • Washington State Mandatory Arbitration (MAR) Arbitrator
  • Washington State Bar Association (WSBA# 16364)
  • Federal Bar Association (Western District of Washington and Eastern District of Washington)
  • Federal Bar Association (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
  • Certified Hypnotherapist (International Hypnosis Association) / Registered Hypnotherapist (Washington State Department of Health – HP60321414)



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